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The Suwalki Gap: The 40-Mile Line NATO is Ready to Go to War with Russia Over | The National Interest
![How a tiny 60-mile stretch of land in central Europe known as the Suwalki Gap could spark a nuclear apocalypse How a tiny 60-mile stretch of land in central Europe known as the Suwalki Gap could spark a nuclear apocalypse](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/composite-suwalktable2.jpg?w=750)
How a tiny 60-mile stretch of land in central Europe known as the Suwalki Gap could spark a nuclear apocalypse
![AFP news agency on Twitter: "Map of eastern Europe showing the Suwalki Gap -- a zone between Poland and Lithuania, which is squeezed between Kaliningrad and Belarus… https://t.co/wzpct5DzBZ" AFP news agency on Twitter: "Map of eastern Europe showing the Suwalki Gap -- a zone between Poland and Lithuania, which is squeezed between Kaliningrad and Belarus… https://t.co/wzpct5DzBZ"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCHjoY-XgAA8rkY.jpg)
AFP news agency on Twitter: "Map of eastern Europe showing the Suwalki Gap -- a zone between Poland and Lithuania, which is squeezed between Kaliningrad and Belarus… https://t.co/wzpct5DzBZ"
Why is the Suwalki Gap (pronounced: Soo-vow-kee) a forty-mile highway between Poland and Lithuania so important to NATO? - Quora
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